Vitellius AE Sestertius "PAX AVGVSTI Pax" Rome 69 AD RIC 117 Rare

Vitellius AE Sestertius. Rome Mint 69 AD. Obverse: A VITELLIVS GERMANICVS IMP AVG P M TR P Laureate head of Vitellius right. Reverse: PAX AVGVSTI S C Pax standing left holding branch and cornucopiae. References: RIC 117 Rare. Size: 33mm, 22.43g. Numismatic Notes: A decent example of this popular emperor in a rare denomination! Badly smoothed and tooled, but it is authentic. The face of Vitellius and the legends appear to be untouched and original (save for some cleaning scratches around some of the legends), but there was likely bad corrosion at the high points and someone attempted to "enhance" it along the way. A reasonable example of this hard-to-find type, despite it's jaded past. Mixed red and black patina (the black likely the original patina, the red not original).